Francis Ford Coppola
Directing
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, which included George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and William Friedkin, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary filmmaking. He co-authored the script for Patton, winning the Academy Award in 1970. His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather in 1972. The film revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, garnering universal laurels from critics and public alike. It went on to win three Academy Awards, including his second, which he won for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it was instrumental in cementing his position as one of the prominent American film directors. Coppola followed it with an equally successful sequel The Godfather Part II, which became the first ever sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received yet higher praises than its predecessor, and gave him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. In the same year was released The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. His next directorial venture was Apocalypse Now in 1979, and it was as notorious for its lengthy and troubled production as it was critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War. It won his second Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Although some of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and early 1990s were critically lauded, Coppola's later work has not met the same level of critical and commercial success as his '70s films.
TV Shows(29)
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Self - Guest
2023
Beau geste
Self
2023
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self (archive footage)
2022
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
Self ( Archives)
2022
Directors on Directors
Self
2021
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self
2020
Marcians
Self
2017
Five Came Back
Self
2017
Jay Leno's Garage
Self
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Director's Chair
Self
2014
Sodankylä Forever
Self
2010
C à vous
Self - Guest
2009
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Sacrée Soirée
Self
1987
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1982
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self - Honoree
1978
Please Turn the Page
Self
1977
Saturday Night Live
Self - Director
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Dinah!
Self
1974
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Film '72
Self
1971
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Oscars
Self
1953
Movies(112)
Films to Die For
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
Himself
2025
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Himself
2025
Megadoc
Self
2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2025
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Self
2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self (archive) - director
2024
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
The Family
Self
2023
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Self (archive footage)
2022
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
Self
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
2020
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Self
2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self (archive footage)
2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
2019
Friedkin Uncut
Self
2018
American Dream: Detroit
Self - Interviewee
2018
Godfather I
Self
2018
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
Self
2018
Spielberg
Self
2017
Five Came Back
Self
2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Self
2017
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
Self
2016
The Family Whistle
Self
2016
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
Self
2015
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Self
2015
Artistry/Technology
Self
2015
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage)
2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
Self
2014
Palo Alto
The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
2014
Trespassing Bergman
Self
2013
Twixt: A Documentary
Self
2013
Seduced and Abandoned
Self
2013
Milius
Self
2013
The Godfather Legacy
Self
2012
Sodankylä Forever
Self
2010
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Self
2010
The People vs. George Lucas
Self (archive footage)
2010
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2009
Cannoli
Self
2008
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Self
2008
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Self
2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
2008
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Self (archive Footage)
2008
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Self
2007
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Self
2007
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
Self
2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self
2007
Lights, Action, Music
Self
2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Self
2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Self
2007
Brando
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Godfather and the Mob
Self (archive footage)
2006
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
Self
2005
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Self (archive footage)
2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Self
2005
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
Self
2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Self
2005
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
Self
2005
Tying the Knot
Self
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self
2004
The Dream Studio
self
2004
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Self
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
On the Set of CQ
Self
2002
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
2001
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Self
2000
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
Self
1999
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Self
1999
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
1998
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
Self
1997
Vem Var Dracula
Self
1996
The World of Jim Henson
Self
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
1994
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
Self
1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Self
1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
1991
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Self
1991
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Self
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1990
Central Park
Self
1990
Death Of A Porn Queen
Self (archive footage)
1987
The Making of Captain EO
Self
1986
Inside Mishima
Self
1985
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Self
1982
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Self
1982
Inside the Coppola Personality
Self
1981
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
Self (segment "Coppola")
1981
Apocalypse Now
Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
1979
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
Self
1976
The Lion Roars Again
Self
1975
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self
1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Self
1971
Filmmaker
Self
1968
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Self
1968
The New Cinema
Self
1968
The Young Racers
(uncredited)
1963
War Hunt
Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
1962
Art Never Sleeps
Self